Atlantis Community Experts

Learn from the Experts

Atlantis recognizes expert members of the virtualization community and their passion for technology and transformative approaches to data center designs. Connect with these industry experts to learn more about Atlantis and other virtualization technologies.

Femi Adegoke

Femi is an independent & passionate technical architect. He focuses on virtualization oriented projects. "Virtualization makes me feel like a magician." When he's not busy working, he can be found working on his Hurco VMX24 or ranting and raving on Twitter

Daniel Bolton

Daniel is a technical architect with over 10 years experience specialising in end user computing modernisation programmes focusing on physical desktop management, RDSh, VDI, UEM, application delivery, automation and self-service delivery. In 2012, he received RES Software Valued Professional status for contributions to the EUC community and enjoys speaking at round table discussion panels including events such as IPEXPO and BriForum. Daniel currently works at Kingston University London as the technical lead for Kingston’s workspace transformation project implementing next generation EUC solutions. When he's not busy working, he can be found sharing his EUC views (or ranting and raving) on Twitter

Dieter Boonen

Dieter is a Solution Architect working in IT for over 14 years including the last 10 years as independent consultant. He started as Wintel desktop support engineer, and quickly moved to system engineering positions where he worked on system roll-outs and data center migration projects including large multi-forest multi-domain Active Directory environments.
The last 5 years he has focusing on the virtual workplace and related technologies - mainly Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and surrounding technologies. He is a fan of the thin client endpoint model with datacenter consolidation of applications and data. H always puts the end user experience first, but also keep in mind the IT support teams that will maintain the environment.

Most recently, he teamed up with a partner and started Nimble.be, an Expert Services company centered of the adoption of the modern workplace and mobile workstyles through integration of virtual, mobile and cloud applications. Besides working in IT, he is a husband and father of four beautiful children which keeps him busy and happy.

Marco Broeken

Marco has been working in IT since 1999. Over the last few years as an Virtualization / Infrastructure Architect, he designs virtualized infrastructures with focus on VMware and Storage. Marco also started a new DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service) company in the Netherlands called XtraDesktop. He is active in the VMware community and received the vExpert award for 2013, 2014 and 2015. He also is one of the co-founders of the #vRockstar event, organized every year on Sunday before the start of VMworld Europe.

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Julien Cohen

Julien has worked with virtualisation technologies starting 9 years ago with VMware 2.5. He's specialized in VDI Solutions and End User Computing. He currently works with SCC as EUC specialist and Atlantis Computing is the transparent solution I deploy along side of Citrix, Vmware and others.

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It is Not the strongest of the species that survives but the most adaptable

Fabrice Colas

Fabrice is a systems Engineer at citrix with over 22 years of enterprise IT experience. Through the years, he has designed and implemented some of the most complex application and desktop virtualization platforms for enterprise grade customers. Fabrice is a vExpert for the years 2014-2016 and a french blogger around technology desktop Virtualization and Hyperconvergence

Barry Coombs

Barry is an Operations and Pre Sales Director for ComputerWorld Systems Ltd (www.computerworld.co.uk) by day and an avid Blogger by night - following everything to do with enterprise technology but specifically end user computing. Barry's responsibilities include working with vendors and partners identifying new technologies, managing his team of technical specialists architecting solutions for customers to speaking and hosting customer and community focused events surrounding virtualisation, end user computing, storage and cloud computing. Via his community, Barry blogs at DefineTomorrow.co.uk, is co-host of the EUCPodcast.com podcast and has co-authored two books focusing on VMware Horizon View. Outside of work Barry is a proud father and husband who enjoys spending time with his family, cycling (Although needs to find more time), photography and yet again more tech! Barry enjoys talking about technology and sharing his findings with others in the community. Barry was awarded VMware's vExpert award for contributions to the VMware Community in 2010 through to 2016 Barry can usually be found on twitter (@VirtualisedReal) chatting about virtualisation and technology in general.

Expertise: Virtualisation, Storage, End User Computing

Favorite Quote: "If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good." - Roald Dahl

Kyle Davies

Kyle is a passionate and dedicated solutions architect who can assess, plan and design across the complete workspace technology stack - including most products from Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and core data centre dependencies. Over the years, Kyle has been involved in solutions for organisations ranging from 10 users to 15,000 global users, ensuring that the best possible end user experience is delivered technically whilst being commercially aware. As most workspace solutions expand to cover more than just the workspace technologies, his skills and expertise have also broadened into the data centre space covering Active Directory, Exchange, server virtualisation, storage design (physical and software defined) and high level networking including SDN. Kyle in his own time codes across various platforms and languages C++, C#, Visual basic, HTML, PHP, Java, Python, Powershell, Swift etc, allowing him to create end user facing applications, websites and scripts for automating tasks. As part of his role as a solutions architect, Kyle can lead and influence at a granular technical level or at senior management level. Kyle has a great grasp on market trends and all commercial aspects of workspace solutions and core data centre technologies.

Rick Dehlinger

Rick Dehlinger is formerly a founder and managing owner of Claros Systems (now part of nGenx) and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at nGenx. Rick joined Citrix in 1999 as a Systems Engineer/Architect, and quickly became one of the most trusted and innovative technologists in the desktop virtualization community. After a short stint at Microsoft, he built a focused, highly specialized desktop/application virtualization consulting practice which has evolved over the last 7 years into the service offering that nGenx delivers today. Rick is an active participant in the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) Program, as well as a consistent supporter and presenter at a variety of industry events (including Citrix Summit and Synergy, Geek Speak, BriForum, PubForum/Experts2Experts Conference, and a variety of user group events around the world).

Trent Dilkie

Trent Dilkie has come a long way in the last 30 plus years, from engineering student at the University of New Brunswick to VP Strategic Initiatives & CSO at Gibraltar Solutions. Today, Trent is an important part of the Gibraltar team, as his expertise in security has allowed him to be involved in ethical hacking and building computer security assessments and new security practices. He has also developed solutions for mobile device integration into corporate IT, Bring Your Own Computer programs and Mac@Work programs.

Nick Fuchs

Nick is a versatile IT engineer with over 10 years experience in a multitude of different technologies & products (Citrix, Microsoft, VMWare, Dell, HP, AppSense, VEEAM, Atlantis, etc). He's also worked across a number of different industries, with a focus in the finance industry. He's passionate about enterprise IT and technology in general. His career has been concentrated around desktop virtualization, desktop engineering, end user computing, and all the crevices in-between. Currently, he's the principle engineer on a globally deployed Citrix XenDesktop VDI infrastructure built on the Atlantis USX platform, and centrally located in Northeastern U.S.

Quote: "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
-Pelé

Jarian Gibson

Jarian Gibson is an independent consultant/solutions architect focused on application/desktop virtualization and enterprise mobility technologies based out of the Kansas City area. With more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, Jarian has worked on many assessment, design, and implementations projects for application/desktop virtualization solutions. Jarian has and maintains industry certifications from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware to name a few. Jarian is an active contributor in the Citrix Support Forums, the Citrix IRC channel, and has his own website. Jarian has presented at conferences (BriForum, Citrix Synergy, and E2E Virtualization Conference), been named Citrix Geek of the Week, recognized by Citrix as one of the top five Citrix engineers in the central region at Citrix Synergy 2011, and contributed to Desktop Virtualization Deployment Insights eBook published by Citrix

Thomas Gotthalmseder

Thomas has many years of experience working as IT Professional, IT Architect and IT Consultant, with x86 servers and workstations, multiple Hypervisors, Windows OS, IBM i5/OS, Central Storage Systems & SAN. His areas of expertise include:

James Green

James is a Partner at ActualTech Media and writes, speaks, and consults on Enterprise IT. He has worked in the IT industry as an administrator, architect, and consultant, and has also published numerous articles, whitepapers, and books. James is a VMware vExpert and VCAP-DCD/DCA.

Steve Greenberg

Steve Greenberg is the founder of Thin Client Computing, a leading technical consulting group based on Scottsdale, AZ. A pioneer in virtualizing Applications, Desktops, Servers and Data Centers since the 90’s, he is widely recognized thought leader in Virtual and Software Defined computing. Known for a focus on providing practical, i.e. “Real World’, solutions he is also a popular conference speaker at leading industry events. Clients include American Express, Cox Communications and Mayo Clinic.

Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein aka Eric is a Norwegian working as a full time blogger and trainer from his home office in Fortaleza, Brasil. Eric has been working with both Citrix and Microsoft products since 1999. He’s known to customers, companies and individuals around the world for xenappblog.com and xenapptraining.com, which shares his real world experience with Citrix & Microsoft products.Eric has been awarded as Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), Nutanix Technical Champion (NTC) and VMWare vExpert. He’s also a Citrix Certified Instructor (CCI) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

Gareth Hogarth

Gareth Hogarth is an technical architect who specialises in VMware solution design and implementation. He has worked in a variety of technical roles for over 15 years. His skills also include datacenter virtualisation with VMware vSphere, traditional block storage and recently Atlantis USX and Atlantis HyperScale. He has achieved several industry certifications including VMware Certified Professional-Datacenter Virtualisation (VCP5-DCV), VMware Certified Professional Advanced Professional - Datacenter Design and Datacenter Administration, (VCAP5-DCD, VCAP5-DCA). He has also been credited as a VMware vEXPERT for 2014 and 2015. Gareth’s work experience spans many different industries in both the public and private sector, and has worked in both South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Victor HOMOCEA

Victor started his career in IT almost 15 years back and always dreamed on working on big Infrastructure projects, with new technologies and meet lots of smart people. He has a huge passion for technology, especially virtualization and currently is an End User Computing Designer and Lead Citrix Engineer and at OMV. He has in-depth knowledge of back-end infrastructure and its relationship with applications and users, printing and mobility, all scaled for the Enterprise. You find him most of the time on Twitter but also on LinkedIn evangelizing new technologies and processes that can change in good, the world we live in.

Edwin Houben

With over 15 years of experience in IT, Edwin is a Solution Architect and Solution Manager for ConoScenza and is proud father of two kids and married for almost 16 years with the love of his live. ConoScenza is an independent IT consultancy firm in the Netherlands specialized in End User Computing environments.
Edwin is very pragmatic and focused, always looking for the best solution for a customer. He is an End User Computing expert and has done a lot of large datacentre migrations, large EUC designs and implementations in the field. Edwin holds several Microsoft and Citrix certifications, MCP, MCITP, CCA, CCEA, CCEE, CCIA. CCP-M, Citrix Specialist Mobility.

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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
By John Wooden

Kyle Jenner

Kyle has more then 10 years in the IT industry, ranging from support to consultancy roles. With experience in many different software and hardware vendors, he thought it time to document some of this experience in his blog. He is currently a Technical Consultant for a VMware partner in the UK. Focused on VMware products both data center and EUC areas, he involved in the full project life cycle from pre-sales to delivery. His personal life revolves around my family which include his beautiful wife and two wonderful kids.

Chris Ketting

Chris started his IT career in the early 90’s assembling and testing desktops at Escom, a retail chain with stores in Germany, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom. Currently Chris is CTO at Lemontree, a managed services provider in The Netherlands. Chris is an “External-facing Technologist”, focused on using technology to provide better products and services to Lemontree’s customers. To achieve this Chris develops the strategic technology plan for Lemontree by identifying, tracking, and experimenting with new and potentially disruptive technologies.

Bill Kleyman

Bill is an enthusiastic technologist with experience in data center design, management, and deployment. His architecture work includes large virtualization and cloud deployments; as well as business network design and implementation. Bill enjoys writing, blogging, and educating colleagues around everything that is technology. During the day, Bill is the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at MTM Technologies, where he interacts with enterprise organizations, and helps align IT strategies with direct business goals and outcomes. Bill’s whitepapers, articles, video blogs and podcasts have been published and referenced on WindowsITPro, InformationWeek, NetworkComputing, TechTarget, Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet, Slashdot, and many others. Most recently, Bill was ranked #16 globally in the Onalytica study which reviewed the top 100 most influential individuals in the cloud landscape.

Mark Knouse

Throughout the last two decades, Mark S. Knouse has been involved with various areas of technology ranging from aerospace optical design and manufacturing to IT architecture and operations for enterprise pharmaceutical companies and financial firms. His passion and focus is virtual computing. He is also the founding member of a certification training ring focusing on Citrix and VMware technologies. Mark’s hobbies include motorcycles, music, art, fine dining, and sampling new beers with friends.

Jason LaFavers

Jason LaFavers is a Principal at Revel Technology in Houston, TX specializing in data center solutions, enterprise IT strategy, and implementation of core IT infrastructure technologies for large and mid-sized businesses. Jason has more than 19 years of enterprise computing experience beginning with Compaq/HP in the late ‘90s followed by many years of independent consulting before founding Revel Technology is late 2011. Jason has several industry high-level certifications from Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, AppSense as well expertise in many other solutions.

Dukagjin Maloku

Dukagjin Maloku is the leader of the VMUG for Albania & Kosovo, currently working as System Engineer with focus on Virtualization/Storage, SDDC as well as HyperConverged Infrastructure and Cloud solutions (Public & Private). Microsoft MVP (2012-2014), MVP Reconnect 2016-2017, Nutanix NTC (2017) & NPP certified, ex-PernixPro member, part of the VMware Experts Database Program (Europe) & recently member Atlantis ACE.

Andrea works at an Italian IT company (Assyrus Srl, founded on 2000). He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware solutions, but also has deep experience with Microsoft, Citrix and Linux. His first virtualized solution to go to production used VMware ESX 2.x several years ago.

He is the VMware Italian User Group founder and board member, VMTN Community Moderator, #vBrownbag and Backup Academy contributor, passionate blogger, and runs his personal blog on vinfrastructure.it (both in Italian and English).

Theresa Miller

Theresa Miller is an IT professional that has been working as a technical expert in IT for over 20 years. She is a Citrix CTP, VMware vExpert, and MBA. Her areas of expertise are in the areas of Exchange, Office 365, Active Directory, VMware, Citrix XenApp and XenDeskop. She is the Owner/Founder of 24x7 IT Connection, LLC, a Windows IT Pro Contributing Editor and Pluralsight author.

Karl Nicholson

Practice Lead – End User Compute & Mobility for Softcat plc. Worked in the End User Compute & Mobility field for over 8 years, starting in the education sector delivering Presentation Server/XenApp to a number of education establishments throughout the UK before focusing on 1:1 iPad strategies and roll-outs for both students and teachers in late 2010. Moved to Softcat in 2012 as a consultant before being appointed as Practice Lead. Currently focusing on transformational EUC & Mobility strategies for establishments across multiple verticals.

Andreas Nick

Andreas Nick has more than 20 years of experience in the IT business. He is the CTO and owner of the German company „Nick Informationstechnik GmbH“, specializing in designing, consulting and engineering all kinds of virtualization technologies, primarily Citrix, Microsoft and VMware products. Andreas also is the developer of a popular patch management tool for Citrix XenDesktop and a Citrix XenApp Streaming to Microsoft App-V converter.

James O'Regan

James is a Solutions Architect focusing on End User Computing projects based in Dublin and currently works for Zinopy, a Citrix Platinum Partner. James has been working in IT for over 14 years and has worked with Citrix technologies for the last 12 year specialising in XenApp and XenDesktop. He has worked in consulting in both Ireland and the US and his main verticals are the financial and government sectors. James is an active member of the EUC community and has spoken at both E2EVC and the Irish Citrix User Group and is member of the RES UK and Ireland Steering Committee. He has also been awarded the status of RES RSVP. Outside of work, James likes to watch football and is an avid Liverpool fan and he also enjoys snowboarding when he can get away.

Andy Osborne

Andy is an experienced technology leader in all elements of WorkSpace Desktop Virtualisation possessing an extensive knowledge of product backed up by many years of practical experience of market knowledge and commercials, requirements analysis, architecture design and integration. Andy is particularly focused on the end to end Citrix WorkSpace Suite.

Paul Pettit

Paul Pettit is a Co-Founder and Partner at Spadafy, a Seattle based consulting group primarily focused on VDI and improving user experience in healthcare. Paul began his life in IT at award winning community hospitals, where he quickly learned the importance of speed and ease of use for physicans and nurses. Prior to co-founding Spadafy, he was an engineer at Imprivata and VDI Practice Manager at Siemens Healthcare. Paul is based in Winter Park, Colorado where he spends his summer downhill mountain biking, winter snowboarding, and time in between getting lost in the woods with his St. Bernard.

Joep Piscaer

Joep Piscaer is a VCDX-certified (#101), vExpert, Veeam Vanguard, Atlantis Community Expert and Nutanix Technology Champion-awarded CTO at OGD ict-diensten. He has in-depth knowledge of the infrastructure landscape and vendors with a specialization in Hyperconverged and next-gen infrastructure (containers and unikernels). Besides this day-time job, Joep very active in the international virtualization community and an NLVMUG Leader. He is a speaker on many conferences and he participates in events such as Tech Field Day, presents at local VMUG meetings and writes on his blog, VirtualLifestyle.nl.

Thomas Poppelgaard

Thomas Poppelgaard has 19 years of IT experience in various positions like Administrator, Senior Consultant, IT Architect, Solution Architect, Concept Manager and Product Manager. He currently works as an independent Technology evangelist at his own company, Poppelgaard.com. Thomas works with Advisory, Business development, IT-strategy, pre-sales, architectural designing, planning and implementation solutions within Citrix, Microsoft and VMware for ISV, Cloud Providers, Distributors, Resellers and End Customers. He is highly involved in Proofs of Concept to help prove why business should adapt new technologies. Thomas Poppelgaard is a Subject Matter Expert in End User Computing, Enterprise Graphics Virtualization, Remote Graphics, Visual Computing, HPC, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Thomas has developed his in depth knowledge on XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro since 2008 and XenApp HDX 3D since first version and GPU pass-through with XenServer. In 2011, he was one of the organizers of a successful HDX 3D Pro event where vendors including Citrix, HP, Autodesk and NVIDIA were gathered to demonstrate HDX 3D Pro to a wider audience and in 2013 talked at NVIDIA GTC, and at Citrix Synergy in 2014 he showing Oculus Rift working with VDI. In 2015 showed the audience at NVIDIA GTC and Citrix Synergy that Office and Internet Browsers are using GPU. Thomas specializes in how CAD/CAE/CAM applications can be virtualized with Citrix, Microsoft, VMware (SBC/VDI) technologies and how the GPU is an important component in the virtualization space. Thomas also enjoys speaking at various industry events such as BriForum, Citrix Synergy, NVIDIA GTC, E2EVC and Citrix User Groups in EMEA. Thomas is awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for RDS since 2015, Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) since 2013 and RES Software Value Professional (RSVP) since 2013. You can find him sharing knowledge on his blog www.poppelgaard.com or on twitter @_POPPELGAARD

Claudio Rodrigues

Cláudio is a Senior Technical Architect/Consultant based in Ottawa, ON, Canada. He has been deploying server-based computing solutions since the OS/2-based, Citrix WinView days. Thanks to his contributions to the Terminal Services community, he was the first person to ever receive the Microsoft MVP award for Terminal Services. He was the CEO of Terminal-Services.NET, the company that originally developed tools such as WTSGateway Pro and WTSPortal, later acquired by 2X Software Ltd and also the CEO of TSFactory, the first company ever to release an ICA/RDP session recorder for Citrix/TS. His main goal was to bring easy to use, reliable and affordable tools to the server-based computing market. Cláudio has also worked all over the world doing terminal services/Citrix deployments and speaking at many different and interesting places. After leaving 2X in February 2006, he is now working on new and exciting products and ideas for the TS community at WTSLabs Inc. In his spare time he manages to do consulting work, conducting on-site trainings, and speaking at several conferences.

Herman Rutten

Herman Rutten is Solution Architect at PQR, a value-added reseller in the Netherlands. In this role, Herman is responsible for driving both business and innovation, as well as delivering strategical and tactical IT advise to both commercial and governmental organizations. His current focus is on the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Hybrid Cloud. Because of his vast experience in the field with multiple datacenter storage-, disaster recovery- and backup technologies, Herman is regarded as an expert in each of these areas. Herman Rutten is also currently active as the main Software Defined Storage and Hyper-converged Infrastructure (SDS/HCI) category contributor for the international online community initiative called WhatMatrix.com

Jason Samuel

Jason Samuel is an Infrastructure Architect living in Houston, TX with a primary focus on mobility, virtualization, and cloud technologies from Citrix, VMware, & Microsoft. He also has an extensive background in web architecture and information security. He holds a degree from the University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business and is certified in several technologies. Jason is also a recipient of the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) award.

Favorite Quote: “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Barry Schiffer

Barry is a Citrix Certified Expert on Virtualization, Microsoft Certified IT Professional and RES Certified Professional. Citrix awarded Barry with the Citrix Technology Professional status in 2014 and RES Software also awarded Barry with the RES Software Valued Professional status in 2012.

Favorite Quote:

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

Vladan Seget

Vladan is as an independent consultant, professional blogger, vExpert for the years 2009 - 2016, VCAP5-DCA/DCD, and VCP. His site, ESX Virtualization started as a simple bookmarking site, but quickly found a large following of readers and subscribers.

Joe Shonk

Joe Shonk is a veteran consultant well versed in virtualization technologies, storage, application and desktop delivery platforms, among others. Joe has presented at numerous venues and conferences including BriForum and Citrix's GeekSpeak. Joe is also a former Microsoft MVP, a current Citrix CTP and of course a former BriForum GeekOut game show champion! Joe's current side project includes exploring IoT/IoE applications in the enterprise.

Marino Simons

Marino started working in IT in 1997 and after a few years of general system administration (Novell Netware, Token Ring, Lotus Domino), he moved into server consolidation. His company embraced the idea of virtualization and Marino dove straight in (using ESX 2.01 and GSX). During the course of this project, he obtained his first VCP certification, and has remained a VCP ever since. After few years, he moved from an internal employee to the consultancy business. This has expanded his expertise to include VDA, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Restore, and other interesting technologies like Atlantis Computing and Veeam. The knowledge and insights that he gained during the years has really helped him troubleshoot and in finding the root cause of the problems.

Besides life in IT, his real passion is driving & talking about classic Alfa Romeo cars.

Robert Sims

Rob Sims is UK based Solutions Architect focused on solving business challenges with creative technology solutions for over 15 years. During the first 12 years of his career Rob was designing and delivering enterprise IT solutions into both the private and public sector, including a notable project with Sunderland City Council that lead to a worldwide Citrix Case Study for 4,500 VDI seats. More Recently, working as a Solution Architect, Rob uses the knowledge gained to help guide customers to technology choices that can deliver measureable business and end user benefits. When not in front of customers he can be found either testing new technology or getting wet in the English Lakes with his wife and Springer Spaniels.

Julien Stanojevic

Julien Stanojevic is a consultant and technology evangelist with over 12 years of enterprise IT experience. Through the years, he designed and implemented some of the most complex application and desktop virtualization platforms for enterprise grade customers. Julien currently works as a senior consultant and Windows & Cloud team leader at D2SI, building application delivery platforms for customers, scaling from few hundreds to tens of thousands seats. His professional interests are primarily focused on application delivery, Windows automation, hyper-converged technologies and public cloud deployments. Julien is an experienced speaker, delivering both keynotes and highly technical sessions on subjects like Windows infrastructure automation, AWS and Azure deployments, Atlantis USX, Citrix Netscaler and more. Regularly speaking at many leading industry conferences such as E2EVC, Virtual Expo, TIAD, Citrix user groups, various local events and workshops. To stay sharp, he spends a lot of time learning and sharing knowledge with a community. He is also a founder of French Citrix Experts meet-up, meant to deliver training and technology insights to a Citrix community in France.

Danny van Dam

Danny is a Solution Architect for ConoScenza with over 20 years of experience in IT. ConoScenza is an independent IT consultancy firm in the Netherlands specialized in End User Computing environments. In this role Danny is primarily focused on Citrix and Microsoft Virtual workplace solutions. He is also a Microsoft MVP on Enterprise Mobility/ Remote Desktop Services. Danny has designed and implemented many complex infrastructure solutions for many medium and enterprise size customers.

Bas Van Kaam

About 17 years ago Bas van Kaam started his IT career as a helpdesk support technician from where he worked his way up to system engineering, consulting and architecting - mostly by self-study, attending seminars, conferences and webinars. From a technical point of view he specializes in (partly) designing, building, maintaining, troubleshooting and optimizing Microsoft & SBC / VDI (Citrix) oriented infrastructures for mid-sized and larger companies. Bas is well known within the community for his contributions on his own personal website & blog where he shares his thoughts and knowledge on an ongoing basis. He is also a frequent presenter / speaker on national as well as international events and conferences like Citrix Synergy, the Dutch Citrix User Group (DuCUG), CUGtech Norway, the Expert to Expert Virtualization Conference (E2EVC), the Virtual Community NRW (Germany) and the Virtual Expo. He also loves the myCUGC community and as such is a (very) frequent forum visitor, contributor and has been appointed as one of the forum moderators.

Bas has been recognized as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP class of 2016), a Citrix Subject Matter Expert (SME) for his contributions to the XenDesktop 7.6 exams and he is also named a Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) for 2014 / 2015 / 2016. In June of 2016 Bas published his first book named: Inside Citrix - The FlexCast Management Architecture. Some of his professional certifications include but are not limited to: CCSP, CCA (X4) CCAA, CCEE, CCIA, CCE-V, MCTS, MCP, MCSA (X3), MCSE (X3), MCITP, VCP, CCNA. Bas is currently employed by The Detron ICT Group, one the leading SBC and VDI consultancy companies based in the Netherlands, where he fulfills the role of Senior Management Consultant and Citrix Product Lead.

Jake Walsh

Jake is a Technical Engineer working in the UK, focusing on End User Computing, Virtualization, and Windows Server Technologies. Jake enjoys working with a range of technologies to achieve the best possible outcome, and always enjoys any technical challenges he encounters. Jake also enjoys developing his skills in his lab environment, and likes to make sure he is always learning something new. Jake blogs when he can on his website and always enjoys testing out new products and features and sharing his findings with the community. When not working he enjoys distance running and flying light aircraft.

Christian Weber

Provide International Finance & Controlling experience in complex markets. Specialized in Finance and IT Strategy development in multinational companies. Project management in large cross cultural environments for process reengineering and process optimization. Development of training concepts for IT and Finance departments. Audit and Risk management for M&A projects.

Leon Wijnhoven

Leon is the CTO of a Insign.it located in the Netherlands. He values long term relationships with customers, colleagues and vendors. He works along side more than 30 specialist who work with the highest passion for customers & vendors. He is a long term advisor for customers while helping them create strategic and intelligent IT Infrastructures that is both TCO & ROI efficient.

Landon Winburn

Landon is a Senior Solutions Architect and EUC Practice Lead based in Houston, TX. He started his IT career at UTMB in Galveston and progressed to Lead Citrix Engineer where he deployed every product under the Citrix Platinum product line. Obtained the Citrix Certified Integration Architect (CCIA) accreditation and then moved on to AppSense Professional Services (APS).

He was one of four consultants who founded APS. As the Global Principal Architect he built all the best practices that are in use today. He was responsible for training all the new hires on the AppSense product line and helped drive new features by working with product management. Many of the features in the product today like the profile import functionality and application profiling where inspired by tools he wrote to fill in gaps in the product. He was the administrator of the past two AppSense Community discussion forums and he is the top contributor to the current forum with the most posts and most accepted answers. He has implemented and assisted 100’s of customers globally to ensure they have a consistent and well performing end user experience.

Dane Young

Dane Young is a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) and Solutions Architect with Entisys Solutions in Northern California, specializing in the design and deployment of application, desktop and server virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Dane organizes and maintains a blog for virtualization and cloud enthusiasts which can be found at blog.itvce.com. Dane holds Masters of Business Administration and Management Information Systems degrees along with several industry certifications from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.